Ethan Lin

eyl45@cornell.edu

I am a 4th year undergraduate student pursuing a double major in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell. I am extremely fortunate to work with Professor Jennifer J. Sun. I previously worked with Professor Donald Greenberg on virtual reality and 3D modeling projects.

I'm broadly interested in research in the areas of graphics, vision, and AI4Science. I have recently been working on improving visual concept learning with VLMs and applying video foundation models for animal behavior analysis.

Research

Beyond Accuracy: Metrics that Uncover what makes a 'Good' Visual Descriptor

Ethan Lin, Linxi Zhao, Atharva Sehgal, Jennifer J. Sun

VisCon @ CVPR 2025

Paper Project Page Github arXiv (coming soon)

Fish Video Dataset

In submission...

Teaching Experience

CS 4620: Introduction to Computer Graphics

TA Fall 2025

CS 3780: Introduction to Machine Learning

TA Fall 2024 & Spring 2025

CS 1620: Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age

TA Fall 2024

CS 2110: Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures

Course Consultant Spring 2024

Projects

Softbody Physics Simulator

This project models softbody interactions using particle-spring systems. This was the top submission for a creative project in Cornell's Graphics course (CS4620).

Taichi Pathtracer

This project implements an efficient pathtracer in Taichi that renders a diamond. The pathtracer supports refraction, fresnel reflection, normal mapping, texture mapping, etc.

Infinite Zelda

This project uses rasterization to render a mini game that is inspired by Zelda. Customized shaders are created to simulate grass, trees, terrain, etc.